Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Mechanism for inverted-repeat recombination induced by a replication fork barrier

  • Léa Marie,
  • Lorraine S. Symington

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27443-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Replication stress and abundant repetitive sequences have emerged as primary conditions underlying genomic instability in eukaryotes. Here the authors use a prokaryotic Tus/Ter barrier designed to induce transient replication fork stalling near inverted repeats in the budding yeast genome to support a model for recombination of closely linked repeats at stalled replication forks.